Question

In a mathematics class, half of the students scored 79 on an achievement test. With the exception of a few students who scored 49, the remaining students scored 78. Which of the following statements is true about the distribution of scores?

Answer 1

Option C. The mean is less than the median in the distribution of the scores.

How to solve for the median

The median is given as 79 + 78 / 2

= 78.5

The mode is 79 this is the number that has the highest frequency in the data.

The median is 78.5  this is the middle number in the set of scores of these students.

Hence the mean is less than the mode and the median given that it was  it was brought down by the few scores of 49.

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